Friday, June 20, 2008

This meant to be a guideline to help you get started of mixing an electric guitar. But you should remember that there are no "one preset solution" for everything when doing mixing. So, keep practice...

Compression, attack 10 - 50 ms, release 0.3 s, ratio 4:1 and 12:1

Roll off below 80 Hz to remove rumble

Little boost 120 - 200 Hz to fatten up

Cut 200 - 300 Hz, depending on the song and sound

Boosting around 2 - 3 kHz to add some edge / byte to the sound or cut for transparancy

Make hole / cut 3 - 4 Hz (human voice dominant frequency)

Boosting around 5 - 6 kHz to add presence

Roll off gently starts from 6 kHz above

Boosting around 8 - 12 kHz to add brightness

Reverb, plate / room decay 1.5 - 4 s, pre-delay 30 - 60 ms

Cutting is better than boosting, try to cut more often than boost. For example if you want to boost frequency around 150 Hz, you should try to cut 200 - 300 Hz first.